Mondays, September 22-November 10.  7:00-10:00 PM.  8 Weeks.  $210

Designed for the intermediate to advanced actor, this class focuses on moment-to-moment reality of the scene and making specific acting choices that support the text.  Please come prepared with a monologue (2 minutes or less) on the first day.  While Alex will help guide you toward great scenes, please be prepared to find scenes from contemporary scripts.  Or bring a list of your “dream scenes”—roles you’d love to play, but aren’t likely to get.  For example, if you’re a 50-something guy yearning to portray Juliet, now’s your chance! 

Alexander Platt is Artistic Director of Elemental Theatre Collective.  With Elemental Theatre he has directed six productions over the past two seasons in addition to performing.  He recently appeared as Officer Anthony in Providence Black Rep’s production of The Etymology of Bird and as Ed in Falling Up in Perishable’s 13th    Women’s Playwriting Festival.  Other credits include Judas in The Pathological Passion of the Christ (La MaMa, NYC), Caliban in The Tempest (Trinity Summer Shakespeare), Hank in Fall (Studio 42) and Roux in Marat Sade (Trinity Rep Conservatory).  Alex has an MFA in acting from Trinity Rep Conservatory. 

PLAYWRITING—David Eliet

Mondays, September 22-November 10.  7:00-10:00 PM.  8 weeks.  $210

For everyone interested in writing plays, from the beginner to the more seasoned writer. There are in-class and weekly assignments.  At each meeting you have the option of working on your own material, trying the weekly challenge–or both. Class participants may bring in material they are working on for readings and feed back by other class members.  On the last week, actors will join us to read the scripts in progress. 

David Eliet is a playwright, director and theatre educator. He was the founding artistic director of The Perishable Theatre, director of the Cleveland Play House Lab Company, and the Circle In The Square Suitcase Theatre and Acting Ensemble.  He was the a cofounder of The Trinity Rep Conservatory.  David recently returned from Ukraine where he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Kirovohrad Social Pedagogical Institute and Pedagogical University.  He was the 2007 RISCA Playwriting Fellow. 

TUESDAYS

INTRO TO ACTING—Connie Crawford

Tuesdays, September 23-November 11.  7:00-10:00 PM.  8 Weeks.  $210

Have you always felt that you could light up the stage, if only given the chance?  This is a fundamental course for anyone interested in acting on stage or screen.  It focuses on basic skills using exercises, improvisation, monologue work, and scene study.  Some work outside class is required, but no prior experience is necessary.  You’ll finish the class prepared for more in depth training and your first auditions—and you’ll have a great time along the way. 

Connie Crawford has done theatre everywhere from Broadway to Texas bars and even in the bathroom of a tour bus. She graduated from the Julliard School's acting program, studied with Bobby Lewis, Uta Hagen and The Groundlings.  Connie has acted, directed and written for the stage in NYC. Currently, she teaches at Brown University.  In spring 2009, she will direct The Thing That Ate My Brain...Almost for Perishable Theatre.